Ludus scacchiae: chesse-play. : A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging / translated out of the Italian into the English tongue. Containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse ... by G.B. Printed at London by H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the conduite in Fleet-Street. 1597.

Ludus scacchiae: chesse-play. : A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging / translated out of the Italian into the English tongue. Containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse ... by G.B. Printed at London by H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the conduite in Fleet-Street. 1597.

[London] : [Reprinted by Harding and Wright], [1810?]

1 p. leaves, [14], 30, [2] p. : diagr. ; 27 cm

Title within ornamental border.

Ascribed by Brunet, Graesse, and Lowndes to G. Blochimo.

The date of this reprint has been variously cited as 1806, 1809, and 1810.

According to Brit. mus. Catalogue, pt. [1] is merely an abridgment of Rowbotham's translation of Damiano da Odemira's "Libro da imparare giocare a scachi", published at London, 1562, under the title "The pleasaunt and wittie play of te cheasts renewed ... Lately translated out of Italien into Frenche [by Claude Gruget] and now set forth in Englische".

Part 2 is a free rendering of Marco Girolamo Vida's poem "Scacchia ludus". cf. Linde, Gesch. u. lit. d. schachspiels, vol. II, p. 268.

[pt. 1] To the reader greeting (signed: G.B.) The chesseplay (signed: G.B.)
[pt. 2.] Scacchia lvdvs: chesse play (signed: W. [G.] B.) To the reader (signed: G.B.)

Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566. Scacchia ludus.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

GV1442 .L95 1810 copy 1 Cage

Armorial bookplate (motto: Studiis et rebus honestis): Frank L. Warden.

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GV1442 .L95 1810 copy 2 Cage

Illustrated bookplate: John Harbeson, his book.

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